Monday, 8 February 2016

coordinate - Software to convert RA and DEC into ALT and AZ

I have implemented the formulas to convert AR and Dec into altitude and Azimuth in C++ following the book Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet 4th Edition.



In the book there is an example to check if I have do it fine. This example works perfectly but I want to check if my formulas are correct.



I have use this page to check it but I get different minutes values in both altitude and azimuth values.



I have checked on that page that I get the same LST value, but ALT and AZ have different values. This data I have tested:



Altitude: -15° 27' 40"
Azimuth: 273° 12' 34"


This is the data get it from that page:
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Do you know if there is another web page or program to check if the result of my formulas are correct?



UPDATE:
I have tried to get Azimuth and Altitude using a date in year 2000 in web page and my program and this is the result (you can find my program's result at the bottom of the image):
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Is this the same problem like the previous one (I'm not taking account for precession)?

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